0 2048 Addiction

My 2048 High Score

Signs that you are addicted to 2048

• You play 2048 during your lunch break at school.
• You play 2048 during your planning period at school.
• You have convinced multiple students that they should try their hand at playing the most addicting game on the planet.
• You gush about the game to your coworkers until they start playing. 
• You convince your sister that she should start playing 2048 so you will have someone to discuss strategy with.
• You take screen shots of your new high score to send to your sister.  Subject of E-mail: "Too bad the game isn't called 1024"  She replies with, "You spend too much time playing this game."  
• You create a 2048 paper grading strategy.  It goes a little like this:
• Decide to grade papers.
• Start playing 2048.
• Spend way too much time playing 2048.
• Realize that your papers are not getting graded.
• Continue playing 2048 while pondering possible solutions.
• Decide that you would grade more papers if grading papers was as fun as playing 2048.
• Play 2048 some more.
• Create the 2048 paper grading strategy.
• Play another game of 2048 before employing the strategy.
• Sort your papers to be graded into piles.
• Celebrate your hard work by playing a game of 2048.
• Grade a pile of papers.
• Play a game of 2048.
• Grade another pile of papers.
• Play another game of 2048.
• Continue alternating between 2048 and grading papers.  I promise; it works!  (Of course, just grading your papers and getting them over with would be a much more efficient use of time...)
• You love 2048 so much that you try your hand at Flappy 2048 even though your Flappy Bird high score was 1.  On the other hand, my Flappy 2048 high score is 3.  That's progress, people!  
• You write a blog post telling everybody how amazingly addicted 2048 is.

In other news, I still haven't beat this game.  The largest tile I have been able to get up to is 1024.  I'm a math teacher.  This is a number game.  I should be able to beat this!  In fact, I'm afraid I'm getting worse at the game the more I play.  I haven't increased my score in 10 days.  Yes, I keep track of these things...